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Soldiers From the Heart
Based in part on Matthew 5:6: Soldiers From the Heart by Michael Doyle Blessed are those who hunger and thirst For the righteousness of God foremost and first For all of these shall be fully satisfied Because in the countersign … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstain, Battle, Biblically True, Blessed, Book of Matthew, Cross, Discern, Discipline, False Doctrine, Fight the Good Fight, Focus, Footsteps, Forgive, Gentle, God, Godliness, Heart, Hunger and Thirst, Knees, Know, Love, Maturity, Pastor, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Righteousness, Satisfied, Sight, Sin, Soldier, Spiritual Battle, Standard, Timid, Timothy
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On the 1619 Project
An ahistorical work that seeks to repudiate the founding principles of America won the Pulitzer Prize today. In my eyes, all luster is now gone to both the Nobel prizes and the Pulitzer with this move. It’s not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahistorical, Alienation, All Against All, Allege, America, American History, Arbitrary, Assert, Attempt, Balkanization, Bill of Goods, Capricious, Compromise, Conceived, Consideration, Constitutional Convention, Content, Core, Curriculum, Declaration of Independence, Democracy, Discern, Division, Do Away, Enough, Equal Under Law, Fabric, Fairy Tales, False, Fiction, Founding Principles, Good, Grapple, Group Rights, Groups, History, Hit Piece, Identity Politics, Ill-Liberal, Ill-Liberalism, Illiteracy, Individuals, Integrity, Intent, Invention, Issue, Journalists, Lack, Legitimacy, Liar's Club, Liberty, Loud, Love, Meander, Mentality, Miscreants, Mob Rule, Nation, Nonsense, Notes, Oversold, Overtern, Photograph, Pluralism, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Privilege, Promise, Propaganda, Proposition, Public Good, Pulitzer Prize, Purpose, Real, Repubican Values, Repudiation, Repudicate, Reveal, Right Path, Said, Sake, Self Loathing, Self-Serving, Sincere, Social Justice, Socialists, Struggle, The 1619 Project, Told, Tool, Toxic, Trotskyite, True, Truth, Tryanny, Unalienable Rights, Unity, Untrue, Value, Victimhood, Virtue Signaling, Want, Won't Do, Wrong Minded
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Finding the Good
I had a discussion with someone many years ago about why I wanted two princesses to be familiar with the literary classics from which there were derived the 5′ Shelf of Books aka Harvard Classics. After all, the contention was, … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Applcable, Artistically, Assertation, Being, Best, Book, Can, Capable, Certainty, Choice, Choose, Churchill, Commotion, Confusion, Consistentcy, Contention, Creation, Culture, Daily Smoke, Depiction, Discern, Discussion, Do, Education Draw, Emotion, Experience, Exposure, Extent, Fiction, Find, Five Foot Shelf of Books, Forgot, Friction, Future, Glory, Good, Harvard Classics, Heard, Hesitation, Historicity, Human Beings, Human Soul, Humans, Illusion, Imagination, Imminent, Implicit, Investigation, Learn, Lfie, Literary, Literary Classics, Man, Meaning, Much, Mystery, Need, Neglect, Nuance, Obscure, Observation, Out, Perception, Photograph, Plays, Poem, Poetry, Pretenses, Principles, Question, Reading, Reason, Remember, Resolution, Right and Wrong, Rise, Role, School, Secure, Seen, Senses, Shakespeare, Sincere, Songs, Sonnet, Story Teller, Taint, Teach, The Tempest, Truth, Understood, Veil, Verbal, Visible, Ways, Wisdom, Words
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Dr. Seuss With No Excuse
Two weeks in aka Day 14 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the challenge prompt today is: “to think about your own inspirations and forebears (whether literary or otherwise). Specifically, I challenge you today to write a poem that deals with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Alone, Amaze, Appreciate, Band, Be You, Beautiful, Beauty, Best, Best Part, Birds, Books, Breeze, Brim, Care, Certainty, Child, Childhood, Classical Guitar, Cleanliness, Complexity, Confess, Conformity, Creation, Crime, Daughters, Decades, Dignity, Diligence, Discern, Dr. Seuss, Drift, Drum, Dust, Enormity, Excuse, Explore, Eyes, Faces, Fear, Fired, Fit In, Flexibility, Forgot, Future, Girls, Godliness, Grammar, Gratitude, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hell, Ill, Imagination, Indulgence, Influence, Inspiration, Inspire, Joy, Keys, Large Town, Laugh, Learn, Lessons, Life, Little Bears, Loose, Lorax, Love, Lyrics, Man, Messed Up, Messy, Military Man, Moon, More We Know, Musical, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Neil Pert, Noose, Numb, Open, Pages, Perplexity, Photograph, Places, Poem, Poetry, Poets, Read, Reading, Rhymes, Right Attitude, Right Life, Right Size, Rules, School, Second Guess, Self Pity, Sell, Shakespeare, Shut, Small Town, Soul, Speak, Speck, Stand Out, Stumble, Teachers, Throw Out, Tired, Toys, Trees, True, Two, Two Angels, Ukulele, Vibration, View, William Blake, Wise, Wonderful, Woods, Word Play, Words, World, You
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Right Standing
Based in part on 1 Peter 12: Right Standing by Michael Doyle Father, God in Jesus’ name I have been made without blame Though your crucifixion Rising above my afflictions Thanks to your grace I am held in your loving … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Angel, Blame, Bolder, Bone, Broken, Cross, Crucifixion, Cure, Days, Demand, Direction, Discern, Earn, Embrace, Example, Faith, Father, Fix, Follow, Foward, God, Good, Grace, Heaven, His, Holy, Holy Spirit, Home, Jesus, Keep, Learn, Live, Lord, Loving, Name, Onward, Peter, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pure, Restore, Right, Righteousness, Rise, Seek, Shadow, Shame, Sin, Smolder, Speak, Standing, Strong, Talk, Trace, Walk, Watch, Weeks, Weep, World, Wrong, Yoke
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As Sinners Saved By Grace
Based in part on the Book of Matthew: As Sinners Saved By Grace by Michael Romani Let there be no kind of mistake We must move beyond heartbreak For the good of God’s and our sake To give as much … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Above, Bent, Candle, Choice, Conclusion, Cross, Daily, Discern, Distortion, Earn, Embrace, Example, Experience, Extend, Eyes, False, Father, Fault, Filter, Finished Work, Forgiveness, Give, God, Grace, Hand In Hand, Harvest, Heal, Heartbreak, Heaven, Humble, Hurt, Impress, Inspire, Interpretation, Jesus, Judge, Judgment Day, Kind, Life, Light, Little, Loss, Love, Manipulation, Matthew, Meant, Mend, Mindful, Mistake, Mistakes, Night, Objective, Offer, Path, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Point of Fact, Prayer, Presentation, Pretension, Repeat, Right Action, Sake, Salt of the Earth, Sample, Satisfaction, Seed, Shine, Sin, Sin No More, Snap Judgment, Sobriety, Son, Spark, Subjective, Take, Thought, Truth, Understand, Walk, World, Wrong
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Kindness Over Sin
Force never brings love into this world. Eloquence can be stunning and yet is no proof of conviction. So, what’s the answer? Maybe… Kindness Over Sin by Michael Romani Not so much serendipity As it is mere Christianity To … Continue reading
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Tagged Blindness, Certain, Christ, Conviction, Discern, Divinity, Eloquence, Feel, Flame, Force, Frame, Heal, Hurt, Kindness, Lean, Love, Mere Christianity, Name, Offer Up, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Proof, Real, See, Serendipity, Serve, Simple, Sin, Stun, Tame, Temptation, Theology, Trump, Words, World, Zeal
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Casted Cares
A short devotional poem based on a short pier side devotional attended last night with Desiree: Casted Cares by Michael Romani Elijah spent his time of testing Spent in the crucible never resting Time spent alone where he confides Talking … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Amen, Capable, Care, Cast, Christ, Confide, Crucible, Decision, Desiree, Destiny, Devotional, Discern, Elijah, End, Friend, God, Inside, Journey, Learn, Life, Lord, Meaning, Moment, Patience, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Provision, Purpose, Right, Sermon, Tear, Test, Time, Trial, Trust, Walk, Wept, Yearn
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First Principles: The Aim of Every Constitution Ought Be To Obtain Rule By Those Possessing the Discernment To Pursue Society’s Common Good
“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Aim, Common Good, Constitution, Discern, First Principles, James Madison, Obtain, Political, Pursue, Rule, Society, Virtue, Wisdom
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